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07 May 2008
Evaluate Rational HATS Toolkit v7.1
Rational Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) Toolkit gives you all the tools you need to easily extend your legacy applications to business partners, customers, and employees.
06 May 2008
Increase code reuse and enhance performance
More strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools. Learn base domain entities, behavior in the domain model, and more-advanced features of a generic DAO. They also share strategies for enhancing data-retrieval performance with the domain model.
05 May 2008
Speaking UNIX: Inside TCP/IP
The Internet has played a huge role in the advancement of technology, business, and everyday life for huge numbers of the world's people. Configuring a computer to communicate over a network and connecting to the Internet has become an essential task for administrators. This article shows how to configure a server running IBM AIX to connect to and use the Internet.
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02 May 2008
Scala and XML processing made easy
Scala lets you navigate and process parsed XML in several ways. It also has first class support for XML built right in, so you don't need to create strings of XML or programmatically build DOM trees. In this article, you will see these aspects of Scala in action and see how Scala can make working with XML a joy to do.
01 May 2008
Fluently Groovy
This tutorial is for Java developers unfamiliar with Groovy, who want a quick and easy introduction to the basics. Get started with Groovy's simplified variation of the Java syntax and learn about essential features like native collections, built-in regular expressions, and closures.
30 April 2008
Bind JavaBeans to RDF with Jenabean
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) proposed standard for linking and expressing data on the Web. Java developers who develop applications for the Semantic Web will need to convert RDF properties to or from Java types. Jenabean uses the Jena Semantic Web framework's flexible RDF/OWL API to persist JavaBeans, making the task of writing these applications easier and more familiar to Java developers.
29 April 2008
Knee-Deep in Jazz for better team coding
Jazz is IBM Rational’s next-generation technology platform for collaborative software delivery. Uniquely attuned to global and distributed teams, the Jazz platform is designed to transform how people work together to build software—making software delivery more collaborative, productive and transparent. Follow these tutorials for an in depth look at what Jazz can do for you
28 April 2008
Using Simple Network Management Protocol
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is built in to many devices, but often the tools and software that can read and parse this information are too large and complicated when you only want to check a quick statistic or track a particular device or issue. This article looks at some simplified methods for getting SNMP information from your devices and how to integrate this information into the rest of your network's data map.
25 April 2008
Hands-off load testing with Apache
Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the development cycle by creating a scheduled integration build that runs JMeter tests.
24 April 2008
Tour Data Studio and pureQuery for Informix databases
Learn everything you ever wanted to know about working with your database and building applications in Data Studio — all in 40 minutes.
23 April 2008
Strategies and best practices for modern ORM tools
Although many developers use object-relational mapping (ORM) tools for their applications' persistence tier, some are confused about how to use them and duplicate code unnecessarily. This article covers the basics of a consistent, concise domain model and persistence tier.
22 April 2008
Workload Partitioning (WPAR) in AIX 6.1
The most popular innovation of IBM AIX Version 6.1 is clearly workload partitioning (WPARs). Once you get past the marketing hype, you'll need to determine the value that WPARs can provide in your environment. You can discover that here.
21 April 2008
Use Case models with Rational Software Architect
This tutorial series introduces the concepts and tools involved with modeling service-oriented architecture (SOA) using IBM Rational Software Architect. You will learn how Rational Software Architect, along with IBM WebSphere Business Modeler, supports a model-driven development (MDD) approach to the specification of SOA.
18 April 2008
Many-to-many relationships with a dollop of Ajax
Learn how to implement many-to-many (m:m) relationships in Grails successfully. See how they're handled by the Grails Object Relational Mapping (GORM) API and the back-end database. Also find out how a bit of Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) can streamline the user interface.
16 April 2008
Discover the Boost Filesystem Library
In the past, programmers have had to use native APIs to work around the problem. Discover a library that provides a safe, portable, and easy-to-use C++ interface to facilitate file system operations: the Boost Filesystem Library.
15 April 2008
Protecting JavaBeans in JSF applications
Learn how to use Acegi to secure access to JavaBeans in JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications. You can configure secure beans in a variety of ways, including using Acegi-secured inversion-of-control (IOC) beans directly in your JSF tags.
14 April 2008
Sync your data with WebSphere Process Server relationships
This tutorial shows how you can regain control by delegating these infrastructure concerns to IBM WebSphere Process Server relationships. It walks through the detailed steps of assembling a small integration solution, and provides downloadable sample code that you can use to practice this implementation.
11 April 2008
Tput: Add some spice to your UNIX shell scripts
Many times, shell scripts evolve into menu-based scripts, and the scripter wants to display more to users than simply scrolling text. Regardless of the complexity, scripters have always needed a way to change their output to bold, underline it, reverse the highlights, and so on. That's where tput comes into play.
10 April 2008
IBM Lotus Quickr 8.0 Trial
Download a free trial version of Lotus Quickr 8.0, a Web 2.0-based team collaboration offering, which transforms the way everyday business content such as documents and rich media (such as photos and videos) can be shared and enables more effective team collaboration across organizational boundaries.
09 April 2008
Get an introduction to RichFaces
RichFaces is one of a new breed of user interface component suites available for Java Server Faces (JSF). Add some new tools to your kit including general setup for using RichFaces with Facelets, and several specific component examples.
08 April 2008
Modernization Sandbox for System Z: Architecture
Get hands on experience with IBM Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z. The scenarios provide examples of how to rapidly design, create, assemble, test, and deploy high-quality Web, Web services, portal, and SOA applications for IBM CICS, IBM IMS, and IBM WebSphere Application Server.
07 April 2008
Let’s bind those Java objects to SQL databases
You've already seen how flexible Castor is in allowing you to convert Java objects to XML and back. But Castor does a lot more, including letting you take those same Java objects and turn them into rows within your SQL database. Learn what syntax is the same, what's different, and how you can add SQL to your data binding arsenal.
04 April 2008
Protecting JavaBeans in JSF applications
Get a demonstration on how to use Acegi to secure access to JavaBeans in JavaServer Faces (JSF) applications. You can configure secure beans in a variety of ways, including using Acegi-secured inversion-of-control (IOC) beans directly in your JSF tags.
02 April 2008
Implement business logic with the Drools rules engine
This updated article shows you how to use the open source Drools rules engine to make a Java application more adaptive to changes. The Drools project has introduced a new native rule expression language and an Eclipse plug-in, making Drools easier to use than ever before.
01 April 2008
Make life easier with Continuous Integration by learning what not to do
While Continuous Integration (CI) can be extremely effective at reducing risks on a project, it requires a greater emphasis on your day-to-day coding activities. In this second installment of a two-part article on CI anti-patterns, learn how to lay out CI anti-patterns, and more importantly, demonstrates how to avoid them.
